Production

Producing more means spreading current best practice and investing in new knowledge; both employing high-tech modern science but also more traditional subjects such as agronomy and soil science which have received less attention in recent years.

Demand

Moderating demand involves starting a difficult public conversation about diets and the relative environmental footprint of different food types, in particular classes of meat. We must reduce the approximately 30% of food that is produced but never consumed, both in high-income countries where most food is wasted in the home, restaurant and food service sectors, and in low-income countries where the majority is lost on the farm and during storage and transport.

We must design the international governance of the food system so that globalisation benefits food security, the environment and the poor. We must realise that food security is central to achieving all the economic, environmental and development goals of humanity in the 21st century – we fail on food we fail on everything.